Most of the biography here came not from Noa Noa but an artbook on Gauguin in the Artist Eye series. It had an unconscious influence on A Sphinx's Sketchbook's layout, too, I think--each page of that series shows a central image haloed by comments and translations. I didn't realize well into Sphinx how it visually echoed Artist Eye--just round not square. I like it better than conventional comics' strict sequence of panels.